Devlog #118 + Monstergirl poll #43 is on!
Added 2025-01-01 11:39:14 +0000 UTCNo character reveal this time!
With the public demo releasing tomorrow (January 2nd 2025), I've been very very busy!
I'm actually not 100% sure the build will be approved in time for Steam at the time of writing this, but it's not really a problem. I'll still release it on Itchio, and the Steam release (which should still happen soon anyway) will be one more opportunity to advertise!
Advertising preparations are mostly what I've been doing in the last few weeks but there's still been a few changes in the game, so let's start with that!
Here is a changelog:
During the target shooting minigame if you charge an attack when the game ends the "charging" SFX keeps playing > fixed
made it so kururin and gear puzzles are affected by lowered difficulty and improved their hint / explanation
added build version saved variable, which should make it possible for saves to be compatibles throughout future builds from now on
Compressed BGMs, greatly reducing file size at the cost of a few seconds of loading at the beginning.
Renamed Tiger girl to Lunlun
Various small changes and fixes
Nothing too crazy overall! Small (but very good) changes. The main one would be the BGM compression, which comes at no noticeable cost to quality. There's now a few seconds of wait in the loading screen when launching the game, but I'll load and unload BGMs strategically in the future depending on current area etc, so even that small downside will disappear ^^
I wasn't happy with Tiger girl's previous name, so I changed it (again)! It's very cute and doesn't fit her chuunibyou persona, which I find very fun :B
So yeah, this is a bit of a short devlog. Instead, let's talk about the future for a bit!
First of all, I'll be executing my advertising plans throughout the month (and prepping a few more). Nothing too crazy, I'll be posting on social medias, contacting youtubers and streamers in the hopes they're interested, this kind of thing. If you'd like to spread the word in some way then by all means, please do! And thank you! It'd help a lot ^^
I'll also focus on fixing any new bug that pops up instead of adding new content for now, though I'm very confident overall on that front. Additionally, I've been looking into importing BEW from Game Maker Studio to Game Maker Studio 2 (thanks Mason :B). It seems doable without too much work and does offer some pretty big benefits, including faster compilation time and better optimization. This is pretty much my last chance and best opportunity to do this, so I'll be looking into that and making a decision.
One of my priorities currently is also to finish the remaining chibis for the character already in the demo, as well as to add the ranked up chibi sprites for these same characters! I've mentioned a special process relating to this which is just about finalized now, and as more progress is made on this I'll be revealing what exactly this process is and some of the new chibi sprites. Once they're all ready, they'll be implemented in the public demo! It's still unclear exactly how long this will take, but I can guarantee that it'll be faster than if I were to do it all by myself like before.
Other than that, I'll also take some time to design more monstergirls and look for more artists to help me. This will be a very welcome change compared to the last few months which, while not as stressful as around the 2023 demo release, were still a lot!
And as for something a bit more personal, I also need to slow down a little bit so I can take some time for various IRL things. I need to do some health stuff (no worries), get my hair cut (it's the longest it's ever been and really annoying), and I especially need to finally look for a new place to move to! We'll see how this goes I suppose.
I believe this is about everything I wanted to mention for now...
I'm sure I'll have more to say in the next devlog! And there will be a normal character reveal too!
And now, the Monstergirl poll stuff!
The next monstergirl poll has begun! You can now vote for the monstergirl you want to be included in BE Witches in the Discord server if you are a 2$+ patron!
The poll will be active until the 12th of this month. After this, you will be able to change your submitted modifiers until the 15th. Finally, the two rounds of the modifier poll will take one week each afterwards.
Also, now is a good time to submit a monstergirl and/or modifiers if you haven't already as a patron! If you can't think of anything to submit, here is a list of ideas you can choose from. You'll need to join the server to submit anything!
And last but not least, Happy New Year!!! ^^
